1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 45: Them spic mothuhs gon’ tear him a bran’ new one.at tear someone a new asshole, v.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: If he ketch you, yo’ ass iz grass.at one’s ass is grass under ass, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 119: I knew the Beast when I saw him, though [...] The Beast was dope.at beast, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 111: We managed to have a tree and a big Christmas dinner and the whole family bit.at bit, n.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 111: All the P.R. and blood women had been running up and down [...] and traipsing off with bundles of shit.at blood, adj.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 88: John carried Red Birds, Yellow Jackets, Purple Hearts, and Blue Heavens in quantity.at blue heaven (n.) under blue, adj.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 29: By eleven o’clock John’s party had turned into a downhome ‘sweat box’.at sweat-box, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 76: We all [...] made sure that we didn’t get bunted by a lot of goofs and old head dealers. [Ibid.] 80: How you know Seedy been buntin’ my boys?at bunt, v.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 31: I heard about one narrow escape he made from the Man because Junior Jones burned up the patrol car.at burn (up), v.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 41: Tellin’ her to come over an’ watch us smoke some a that mean bush you got.at bush, n.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) x: That read like [...] a bit of C.H.A. by the Dean. (In traditional institutions when someone makes a request for extraordinary consideration the person responsible for approval likes to ‘cover his ass.’).at c.y.a., phr.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 114: They had already popped three ‘cats’ apiece [...] The only thing about ‘cats’ that I had ever heard was that they were ‘downs’.at cats, n.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 91: I didn’t care about controlling the Juniors, because they didn’t really hold a lot of check.at check, n.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 80: I’ll have some smoke tomorra. Cheebo an’ Panama Red.at cheeb, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 24: Her nicely built chocolate frame rubbed a part of me that I like to have rubbed.at chocolate, adj.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 12: Along with Colombian Gold, Acapulco, and the powerful Black smoke from Vietnam, it [i.e. Panamanian Red] is very hard to come by.at Colombian, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 95: If a man puts a contract on another man, he really signs one on the whole community.at contract, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 79: A young cat will blow your cool when the Man applies the heat.at blow someone’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 104: I’m going to be the man, and I don’t want nobody to think that the man is a cootie-loo.at cootie-loo, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 27: All it [i.e. good manners] really turns out to be iz coppin’ out on yo’ manhood.at cop out, v.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 13: I donno if I’d cut them niggers loose in my crib [...] You know they gon’ wanna be high.at cut loose, v.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 36: He wanted it [i.e. success] badly enough to take the chance of being dimed on by some punk who would never reveal himself.at dime on, v.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 53: I cursed my ego as I realized how I had done myself.at do oneself (v.) under do, v.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 89: I figured it [i.e. hippie philosophizing] was a lot of bullshit and another excuse [...] to get down without getting married.at get down, v.2
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 12: ‘You int’rested in some good Red?’ he asked. ‘Can a fish dig water?’.at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: Yeah, man [...] thass a good pile a dus’ you makin’.at dust, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: yeah man! zinari iz aw ri’; no trubble at all. less you try in mess wit’ his dus’.at dust, n.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 8: Smoky [...] asked me how I would like to make some easy money. I said I’d like it fine.at fine, adv.